General Electronic Resources  

• WebEc a catalogue of free resources for economists and
• "Resources for Economists on the Internet" sponsored by the American Economic Association, editor Bill Goffe by William Goffe
• "EDIRC" ("Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centres in the World") by Christian Zimmermann.
• Intute: database of high quality resources
• Economists with WEB pages by John S Irons
• Inomics
• Virtual Finance Library at the Ohio State University.

Interesting Web-Pages by and/or for Economists

• The Euro HomePage by Giancarlo Corsetti
• Argmax by John S Irons
• Samuel Brittan
• David Smith's (Economics editor of The Times) ECONOMICSUK.COM
• Paul Kruman's Webpage
• Brad DeLong's Website
• Nouriel Roubini's Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site
• The Information Economy by Hal R. Varian
• The Internet Site for the Economics of Networks by Nicholas Economides
• Dr T's EconLinks.com

Journals and Discussion Papers

• Via the University of St. Andrews Library's, Electronic Resources Page, searchable data-bases of economics articles some downloadable, most are only available from a University of St-Andrews computer, others may require you to get a user-name and password from the Library:
• NBER Working Papers
• OCLC Firstsearch and EconLit (also books, discussion papers etc.),
• Web of Science, IBSS (BIDS) and Ingenta Journals,
• JSTOR (all downloadable),
• Electronic Journals in Economics,
• Expanded Academic ASAP International,
• ScienceDirect,
• Kluwer Online and
• new resources / resources on trial subscription.
• The Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) Electronic Library ( downloads of working papers and published articles - some for free)
• The List of Economic Journals from WebEc,
• BibEc information on printed journal articles and discussion papers,
• WoPEc downloadable articles and discussion papers and
• RePEc a database, some downloadable, of journal articles, discussion papers and some computer software (all via NetEc).
• EconBase from North Holland searchable database of the Noth-Holland Journals.
• The Economics Working Paper Archive at Washington University of St. Louis.

Research Resources

• Good research grant sources include: ESRC; The UK's leading funding agency for research and training in social and economic issues
• The British Academy; The UK's academy for the humanities and the social sciences (includes conference support).
• The Leverhulme Trust
• The Nuffield Foundation; Funds self-contained projects which advance education or social science
• The Joseph Rowntree Foundation; The largest social policy research and development charity in the UK
• The Royal Economic Society; Offers range of grants and fellowships
• European Union; Framework Programmes, Fellowships etc.
• INQUIRE funds research into empirical finance
• Research guidance and information is available from Research & Enterprise Services and
• University Information and Tools for Researchers
• Conference and travel grant Information from RES Conference Fund | The British Academy

Learning andTeaching Resources

• SALTIRE The University's Learning and Teaching Support Unit with resources for staff and students.
• Economics LTSN (Economics Learning and Teaching Support Network)
• Tutor2u Aimed at A-level students but still a useful resource for first year students
• Biz/ed (a Business and Economics service aimed at students, teachers and lecturers)
• The Scottish Graduate Program in Economics (Scotlands MSc. and PhD Program)

Books and Publishers

• History of Economic Thought from the University of Bristol, downloadable out of copyright books and documents (including Wealth of Nations)
• Amazon book sellers
• Books for students: studentbooks.co.uk | unibooks4u.com
• Books for Academics (with links to most publishers), but not:
• HarperCollins | McGraw-Hill | Prentice Hall
• IBIS (International Book Information Service)
• University of St Andrews Library with a link to
• Other Library Catalogues

Government and other Institutions

• The United Nations | UNCTAD
• Scottish Parliament | Scottish Executive
• UK Government
• The European Union
• US Whitehouse | US House of Representatives | US Senate
• OECD
• IMF
• World Bank
• Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
• Mark Bernkopf's Central Banking Resource Centre: Links to most (all?) of the worlds central banks and finance ministries (plus much more)

Data

• The Data Archive at Essex University
• UK National Statistics
• OFFSTATS (Official Statistics on the Web)
• CESSDA : European Social Science Data Archives
• NBER
• UCSD Social Sciences Data Collection
• Eurostat (from the EU)
• MIMAS at Manchester University
• Bank of England | HM Treasury
• European Central Bank
• IMF Country Information
• Statistics from the OECD
• BIS - Statistics and Publications
• UN Statistics Division
• Econ Data and Links (largely US) | US Department of Labor Statistics
• Data pages in William Goffe's "Resources for Economists on the Internet"
• Economics Data in the WebEc pages.
• The Economic Journal Datasets Online
• Data from the CEPR

Societies, Associations Networks and Groups

• Royal Economic Society
• Scottish Economic Society
• American Economic Association
• European Economic Association
• Social Science Research Netwok (SSRN)
• Money Macro Finance Research Group
• Network of Industrial Economists
• The Econometrics Society
• NBER
• CEPR
• Scotecon : Scottish Economic Policy Network

Jobs

• Jobs.ac.uk (academic)
• job openings for economists from Inomics
• Gis-a-job (free)
• The University Careers Advisory Service

Media

• Financial Times
• other Newspapers and Info Trac Custom Newspaper Database (both via University Library)
• The Economist
• Time | Newsweek
• BBC | ITN | CNN | Channel 4
• Reuters

University Services

• The Library (including search engines)
• IT Services
• Registry
• The AUT
• Staff Newsletter (username and password required)
• Student Services
• Other University Services